Norwegian Wood
A hefty new Ibsen biography gives us a deeply difficult man in full.
Stories by Helen Shaw
In Class With Professor Kennedy
How the playwright led a cohort of young writers to a threshold—and what lay beyond it.
Festival Roundup Part Deux: Not Our First Rodeo
It wasn’t quite the season of our discontent, but this year’s January festivals felt a bit less binge-able than usual, despite the high points.
Feasting in the Festival Garden
New York’s annual experimental theatre sampler boasts plenty of chills and frills, but the real attraction is carefully crafted mayhem.
All ‘The Season’ in a Day: Reading Goldman to Say Goodbye
You can’t just dip into the best, most compulsively readable book ever written about the art and sweat of making theatre (though you may skip a few parts).
A Critics Bestiary
There may be as many kinds of writers about theatre as there are kinds of theatre. Here’s a handy guide.
New Black Fest: The Revolution May Be Theatricalized
Play reading festivals come and go, but there was something electric and urgent about this year, the fest’s 7th.
The State of the Play: A Critic Addresses the Theatre Nation
There’s no shortage of exciting new writing for the stage. But are we in a Golden Age of playwriting?
Erik Ehn’s Code of Silence
Playwrights at Erik Ehn’s annual Texas retreat don’t speak for 10 days. New writing rushes into the void, along with a sense of community.
David Greenspan Goes Back in Time to Find Helen Twelvetrees
The writer/performer explains his fascination with the vintage film actress who inspired his new play at Abrons Arts Center.
